The modern state of the "science" of psychology and psychiatry kinda prove that even the best college's degree can't help a person become a scientist. A scientist is born or nurtured but certainly not created. Especially given how bound to tradition andresistant to new ideas this field as become.

I've pre-argued this case indirectly in the above 4 posts. This post is just putting all of these in context of the title above. Attacking something with the title "doctor", no matter how undeserved such a title may be (this isn't a medical science but a "mental one), is always risky.

Often people will hear the word doctor or PhD and shut down thier thinking faculties the way a religious person does when they encounter a priest.

This post presents you with a few very important points meant to show how ridiculous diagnosing people's psychological problems from theories in a book when we haven't even understood what humans are or where we are going (for it to be a practical social science) and when the field of psychology repeatedly ignores success in favor of tradition - exactly like a religion does. It may be that one of the ailments humans suffer from when encountering something they are unfamiliar with and without a cultural bestowed framework from which to work from, is to revere it as something extra ordinary, sublime or "holy".First a very strong critique from psychiatrists against more traditional psychiatrists (who are literally trained to prescribe as if by rote, or more accurately, by pamphlet);Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology

Biochemical Imbalance Theory Debunked. It was a great surprise for NPR reporter Alix Spiegelin 2012 to discover that the psychiatric establishment now claims it has always known that the biochemical imbalance theory of depression was not true. Ronald Pies, editor-in-chief emeritus of thePsychiatric Times stated in 2011, “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists.” NIMH director Insel had already told Newsweekin 2007that depression is not caused by low levels of neurotransmitters such as serotonin. However, psychiatry made no serious attempt to publicize the fact that the research had rejected this chemical imbalance theory, a theory effectively used in commercials to sell antidepressants as correcting this chemical imbalance—an imbalance psychiatry knew did not exist.

Rethinking the Effectiveness of Antipsychotic and Antidepressant Drug Treatments. In 2013, NIMH director Insel announced that psychiatry’s standard treatment for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses has not been helpful to many people and needs to change so as to better reflect the diversity in this population. Citing long-term treatment studies, Insel concluded that in the long-term, many individuals who have been diagnosed with psychosis actually do better without antipsychotic medication. With respect to antidepressants, “60 Minutes” in 2012 reported on what antidepressant researchers have long known: placebos do almost as well as antidepressants even in drug-company studies that are biased in favor of the antidepressants. The “60 Minutes” report focused on research psychologist Irving Kirsch who used the Freedom of Information Act to study published and nonpublished drug company studies involving 6,944 patients from the FDA database trials of the six most popular antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, and Serzone).

Clearly psychiatry is no longer a viable science and needs to be treated as such before it causes even more harm, though the harm so far may be immeasurable in itself.

That said, Carl Jung is probably the closest we have had to a real psychological investigator. His personality descriptions still prove to be useful in todays world and is more in depth analysis has clearly been ignored. So that woul be my best guess of where the future of psychology & psychiatry lies.Related posts:

Quotes

"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - Carl Jung

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi